Richmond Tutoring provides 1-to-1 online GCSE Biology tutoring for students in Years 10 and 11 across the UK. Lessons follow your child’s exam board, including Pearson Edexcel, AQA and OCR, at Foundation and Higher tier, and focus on linked written explanation, the required practicals and exam technique. Every lesson is taught by a specialist biology teacher and worked from real past papers. Bring a marked six-mark answer to a free 45-minute lesson and we will show you what it is missing.
Richmond Tutoring offers 1-to-1 online GCSE biology tutoring for Years 10–11 across the UK, covering Pearson Edexcel 1BI0, AQA 8461 and OCR Gateway J247 at Foundation and Higher tier.
What we do differently in biology, whether your child takes it separately or inside Combined Science.
Biology at GCSE covers a lot of ground, and students often have very different gaps. We identify where your child is losing understanding or marks — whether that is cell biology, infection, genetics or ecology — then tailor lessons to their exam board, Foundation or Higher tier and current level.
There is a lot to remember in GCSE Biology, but isolated facts are hard to hold on to. We help your child see how the ideas connect — how cells are adapted to their jobs, how substances move around the body, how genes affect characteristics and how ecosystems work. The aim is understanding that sticks.
Knowing the facts does not always mean knowing how to answer the question. Your child needs to explain processes, link ideas, interpret data, describe required practicals and handle the longer six-mark questions. We practise these skills with real GCSE questions and mark schemes, so they learn what a strong Biology answer actually looks like.
Most parents do not arrive looking for a GCSE biology tutor. They arrive with a sentence about their child. These are the ones we hear most.
Her six-mark answers get two or three marks.
The defining problem in biology. These questions are marked on whether the explanation is linked and complete, not on length. We work on structure: what the command word asks, which points earn marks, and saying them in the order the scheme expects.
He revises for hours and it does not go in.
Re-reading notes feels like revision and is the weakest form of it, which is why biology is the subject where effort and results most often come apart. We switch the work to recall and to answering questions, and show you what that looks like.
She did the practical in class but cannot answer questions on it.
The practical work is carried out at school; the exam tests understanding of the methods, observations, variables, data and conclusions. We go through each practical on your child’s specification exactly as the paper asks about it.
He is on a 5 and wants a 7 or better.
At grades 4 to 6 the content is usually known and the marks are going on how it is written down. We work from a marked paper to find which question types cost marks. For grades 7 to 9 the work moves to precision, multi-step reasoning and the unfamiliar contexts the top questions are set in.
We teach the three biology specifications used in most UK schools. Lessons work from your child’s own board’s past papers and mark schemes.
Edexcel GCSE Biology tutoring for specification 1BI0
We provide Edexcel GCSE biology tutor online, 1:1, for Year 10 and Year 11 UK students.
What students face
AQA GCSE Biology tutoring for specification 8461
We provide AQA GCSE biology tutor online, 1:1, for Year 10 and Year 11 UK students.
What students face
OCR Gateway GCSE Biology tutoring for specification J247
We provide OCR Gateway GCSE biology tutor online, 1:1, for Year 10 and Year 11 UK students.
What students face
Two written papers, and no coursework. The topic split below is AQA’s; Edexcel and OCR divide the same content differently, which is why lessons follow your child’s own specification.
11grade 9s earned by our GCSE students since 2024
2 in 2024, 6 in 2025 and 3 in 2026. Every grade we publish is checked against a results slip first, and we publish the method alongside the numbers rather than the numbers alone.
Three steps, and you meet the tutor in a real lesson before deciding anything.
Fill in the form or send us a WhatsApp message. We arrange the free demo class and match your child with a specialist GCSE biology tutor.
Take the free 45-minute lesson, and sit in if you want to. See how the lesson goes, ask us everything you want to ask, and only go ahead with GCSE biology lessons if you are convinced.
Lessons begin, weekly. Your child starts learning the GCSE biology they were stuck on, and that is what turns into marks on both GCSE biology papers.
At Richmond Tutoring, the price for each 60-minute lesson of biology for GCSE is as follows:
£36per hour
Triple Science biology and the biology inside Combined Science cost the same. So does every other subject we teach.
Richmond Tutoring charges £36 for a 60-minute 1-to-1 GCSE Biology lesson. The first 45-minute demo lesson is free, with no placement fee and no contract. That is the same rate as every other subject and level we teach, and you pay lesson by lesson.
By answering the question that was asked, in linked steps, using the right terms. These questions are marked on whether the explanation is complete and joined up rather than on how much is written, so a long answer that states facts without connecting them scores poorly. We practise them weekly against real mark schemes from your child’s own board.
At least 10% of GCSE Biology assessment assesses mathematical skills, the smallest share of the three sciences. It is mostly data handling: percentages, ratios, means, magnification and reading graphs and tables. If the maths underneath is the real problem, GCSE maths tutoring runs at the same rate.
Two written papers and no coursework. On Pearson Edexcel (1BI0) and AQA (8461) each paper is 1 hour 45 minutes and worth 100 marks; on OCR Gateway (J247) each is 1 hour 45 minutes and worth 90 marks. Practical work is examined inside those papers and is worth at least 15% of the marks.
Yes, and it is the most common place we start. In biology the content is usually known and the marks are going on how it is written down. We work from a marked paper to find which question types are costing marks, then practise those specifically.
Yes. The top grades are won on precision, on linked multi-step explanation and on the unfamiliar contexts the hardest questions are set in, rather than on covering more content. Lessons move to whole papers under time, with every dropped mark accounted for.
Triple Biology is a GCSE of its own, with extra topics and more depth than Combined Science covers. Combined Science covers the same core biology as part of a double award. We teach both, at the same rate.
It depends on the target grade. Foundation runs from grade 1 to grade 5; Higher runs from 4 to 9, with a narrow miss allowed at 3 and a U below that. Higher papers carry content and question types that never appear at Foundation. Schools make the entry decision, usually during Year 11.
Yes. The practical work is carried out at school; the exam tests students’ understanding of the methods, observations, variables, data and conclusions. AQA sets 10 required practicals for GCSE Biology, Edexcel calls its equivalents core practicals and OCR organises them into Practical Activity Groups. We work through each one as the exam asks about it.
Yes. Every lesson is online and 1-to-1, so an online GCSE biology tutor is available wherever you are in the UK — there is no travel and nothing depends on how far you live from us.
Most of the families we teach are in and around south-west London, and we also teach students across the rest of the UK. Places our students come from include Hounslow West, West Kensington, Isleworth, Shepherd’s Bush, Fulwell, Fulham, West Twickenham, Ravenscourt Park, Richmond Hill, Ealing Common, Hampton Wick, South Acton, Hampton, Bedford Park, Whitton, Turnham Green, St Margarets, Kew, Wimbledon, Gunnersbury, Hampton Court, Ashford, Kingston upon Thames, Feltham, East Sheen, Syon, Mortlake, Osterley, Ham, Hounslow, Brook Green, Heathfield, Parsons Green, North Twickenham, Barons Court, East Twickenham, Hammersmith, Richmond, Ealing, Hampton Hill, Acton, Teddington, Stamford Brook, Strawberry Hill, Grove Park, Twickenham, Kew Bridge, Tolworth, Chiswick, Surbiton, Sunbury, Barnes, Hanworth, North Sheen, Brentford, Petersham.
A real lesson, one to one, with a specialist GCSE biology tutor — free, before you decide anything. Tell us the exam board and whether it is Triple or Combined Science, and bring a marked mock if you have one.